By default GStreamer will perform a fork() when scanning and rebuilding the registry file. Applications might want to disable this behaviour with the gst_registry_fork_set_enabled() function.
TRUE if GStreamer will use fork() when rebuilding the registry. On platforms without fork(), this function will always return FALSE. Since 0.10.10
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By default GStreamer will perform a fork() when scanning and rebuilding the registry file. Applications might want to disable this behaviour with the gst_registry_fork_set_enabled() function.